Had my iTunes account not been hacked, and had I not discoverd how common it is for iTunes accounts to be hacked and how reluctant in the past iTunes has been to refund (thanks to my aggressive bank, I did get all my $$$ back, though), I'd run right over and download it. Alas, such is life. I'll just have to listen to it in my own mind.

The diminutive Mrs. McElrath, known to most everyone out here as "A.Q.", transcended her beginnings as a young labor organizer for the Communist Party in the 1930s to become a social conscience of the American labor movement for the better part of seven decades. She was a tireless champion of the working class and the poor, and an eloquent and irrepressible spokesperson for labor, human rights and progressive causes.

At age 79, A.Q. was named to the Board of Regents at the University of Hawaii, where she became a fierce defender of academic freedom for the faculty and a public advocate for lifelong education until just a few years ago, when she quietly retired.

I got to know A.Q. when I worked on a fundraising campaign for the Honolulu Symphony, for which she served as a member of the Board of Directors at the Honolulu Symphony. Passionate about classical music, she was a longtime season ticket holder and a veritable fixture at the Symphony's popular Sunday afternoon performances at Blaisdell Concert Hall, which came about nearly 50 years ago after she convinced its directors to make classical music more accessible to the city's working class. To be around her was to instinctively feel the presence of someone truly special, and when she spoke, her inherent dignity and natural grace compelled you to listen to her intently but quietly.

To all your friends who ask the question: "But what will we do with them?" when the notion of closing Guantanamo is discussed, tell them, "We'll send them to Europe."

Coburn:

[I]t is hard to feel comfortable with Mr. Fitzgerald's remarks in announcing the charges that Mr. Blagojevich's conduct amounted to a "political corruption crime spree" and "would make Lincoln roll over in his grave," that "the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering," that Mr. Blagojevich "put a `for sale' sign on the naming of a United States senator" and that his conduct was "cynical" and "appalling" and has "taken us to a truly new low."

Any prosecutor at the center of a firestorm of publicity may find the temptation to grandstand hard to resist, but these comments are, to put it mildly, remarkably inflammatory.

Somerby:

For our money, Fitzgerald and his overheated aides ought to get over themselves just a tad. It isn't part of their job description to imagine what Lincoln has done in his grave, or to thunder about where Illinois ranks among the fifty worst states.